The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, April 7, 1989 Page: 4 of 16
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4 FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1989 THE RICE THRESHER
SA releases
committee
reports
by Bill Mark
The Student Association's Ad-
ministrative Planning Committee
has completed its final report The
report, composed of three subcom-
mittee reports, examines the issues
of tuition, financial aid, and the new
foundation courses.
SA President-elect, and current
SA Internal Vice-President, Dennis
Abbott said the committee's final
report does not include reports from
its subcommittee on Recruitment of
Students and Professors and its
subcommittee on Undergraduate
and Graduate Spending. These
subcommittees did not produce re-
ports.
The Core Curriculum subcom-
mittee's report deals with the new
Humanities and Natural Science
foundation courses, but does not
study the Social Science foundation-
course, which is not offered in the
fall. Abbott said the report reveals
"what the students felt were the
major weaknesses of the [founda-
tion) courses." He said, "[The sub-
committee] conducted a survey, and
[the report] is more or less a culmi-
nation of the survey."
The subcommittee was espe-
cially concerned with the Natural
Science course, and its report offers
two major suggestions. The first is to
"better organize course materials
and concepts" and the second is to
"better address the varying back-
grounds of academic students."
Abbott said the Financial Aid
subcommittee found that "students
are not generally aware of the re-
sources available or where to learn
gat
SA rejects Al request,
passes $750 changeover
by Kurt Moeller
SA Internal Vice President Dennis Abbott reviews a subcommittee report.
about those resources." A major
recommendation of this subcommit-
tee was to "have a scholarship and
financial aid handbook," which
would contain information on schol-
arship availability and application
dates, names of people to contact for
financial aid applications and infor-
mation, and other financial aid infor-
mation.
The Tuition subcommittee's re-
port was published at the end of No-
vember, and recommended that tui-
tion increases be kept as small as
possible in order to preserve the
character of the university.
Abbott sad, "In the initial stages
we had hoped to get the [entire]
report out by December 1, in time for
the Board of Governors meeting."
The Board of Governors voted on the
tuition increase at this meeting.
"The reason for this [release date]
was the tuition report." However,
the entire report was not finished by
this time, so only the Tuition sub-
committee report was published.
Abbott said, "The report is some-
thing of a permanent document that
deals with problems we see now."
He said the chairmen of the two sub-
committees which did not produce
reports, "told me that they did not
feel they had enough information to
put out a permanent, lasting report.
"These two subcommittees had
to cover a lot of area," and "the initial
involvement was great," but, "in
come cases there were conflicts;
there was a loss of interest," Abbott
said.
Brown College SA Senator Joy
Somma said, "The [Staff and Fac-
ulty] Recruitment committee really
didn't know what was going on."
However, Abbott said, These
[recruitment and spending] prob-
lems will not be over this year," and
that, "I think these are still two prob-
lems that need to be addressed."
Abbott said, "I think that this re-
port is a good example of the Senate
actually doing something that the
majority of students would find use-
ful in the academic realm. The SA
has fallen under a lot of criticism this
year for T-shirt sales and pre-gamc
bashes, and I think that this shows
that the students in the Senate have
been addressing serious problems
as well."
He added, "We fell that we
should leave something for future
Senates."
At the March 20 Student Associa-
tion meeting, the SA allocated $750
for its changeover party. However,
earlier in the meeting, saying it
would cost too much money, it had
rejected a request to spend $ 1050 for
a fund-raising concert for Rice's
Amnesty International chapter.
Changeover will be held Sunday,
April 9. Adminstrators who have
worked with the SA, members of the
Senate, and members of next year's
Senate will attend the Astros-Padres
game in a luxury sky box and then go
to a formal dinner at the Red Lion.
Last year's changeover party was
held at Willy's Pub for $350.
Wiess College Senator Brian
Casey cast the lone "no" vote on
spending the money. (Hanszen Col-
lege Senator Nick Shannin ab-
stained.) Casey said it was selfish of
the SAto spend that much money for
itself when it had just rejected an-
other request
When Baker College junior Klise
Perachio requested money for the
concert, SA President Andy Karsner
said it was too much money, since it
was almost 10 percent of the SA's
budget. Karsner said it had never
given that much money to an organi-
zation, and the SA was not given
advance notice.
Karsner suggested that Rice AI
find corporate sponsorship. Karsner
said a fund-raiser should not require
any money to be put in.
Perachio said, "I came in knowing
[the money requested] was a lot."
However, she later added, "I knew
that they were at the end of the year.
They had quite a bit of money. Yet
they only seem to be keeping it for
themselves."
The free concert, which has since
been cancelled, was scheduled from
1 p.m. to dusk on Saturday April 8.
Five bands, including Sprawl and
Cinco Dudes, were to donate their
services.
At the meeting, many details
were not finalized. Perachio said this
was the first time she had tried to
organize something like it. If she had
to do it over, "I'd have organized it a
lot ahead of time... I don't really feel
it's the SA's fault this isn't happen-
ing."
Eighty percent of the proceeds
from the concert were to go to Rice's
chapter of Amnesty International; 20
percent were to go the international
organization. Currently Rice's AI
chapter is funded by Rice Student
Volunteer Program funds. Perachio
said RSVP consistently asks it to try
and find money elsewhere.
If corporate sponsorship did not
cover the costs of the concert, AI was
to bring back the receipts, and the
Senate would discuss reimbursing it.
Casey said the Senate felt AI would
still be able to hold the concert and
the SA would be able to spend thef
money for changeover.
When the SA approved that much
money for itself, "I felt disappointed.
I would have settled for $750," Pera-
chio said. "I thought that was a little
much for them to allot for them-
selves."
Despite the SA's rejection of her
request, Karsner tried to help Pera-
chio. However, because of the short
notice, he could not get corporate
sponsorship for April 8, and the con-
cert was cancelled. Perachio said, "It
sounds like something I could ar-
range over the summer and set up
for October." She said Karsner said
that he was willing to help over the
summer when he was free from his
SA duties.
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FOR SERVICE TO
THE RICE COMMUNITY
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a graduating senior who has made significant
contributions to community life at Rice.
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